Great opportunity to join an innovative firm ranked in highly in the Sunday Times Top UK companies to work for the group employs around 4,500 staff across the UK.

They are a rapidly growing company who are renowned for the way in which they reward their colleagues and offer fantastic training,
development and career progression. This is backed up with a Gold Investors In People Accreditation.

As a Business Development Consultant, your role is to assist the Sales Executives in selling venues and services that are part of a luxury collection of premises in Kent.

As a Business Development Consultant, your role will be to assist the Sales Executives in selling the venues and services that are part of a large group of companies.

You will be the first point of contact for inbound and outbound prospect calls. However, this is not a hard sales role it is more of a soft sell promoting meeting rooms, wedding venues, conferences etc.

You'll be able to converting warm leads and make cold calls from a list of prospects that you have either been given or have generated yourself.

The role will also include managing all incoming event / conferencing enquiries, generating appointments and actively selling the business over the phone.

Opportunity to Progress:

Following successful completion of the initial 3 month probationary and training period it is planned that the Business Development Consultant will assume the role of a Sales Executive, sourcing and attending their own appointments with new clients for the venues, attending networking events whilst managing existing/new business accounts for the group driving new and additional spend.

The successful candidate will be:

- Driven
- Ambitious
- Hungry to convert warm leads and cold calls into sales.
- Enthusiastic.
- Previous sales expertise.
- Confident telephone manner.

This is an exciting role for a candidate looking to develop a career in hospitality sales.

Hours of work Monday - Friday.